1995 US Code
Title 22 - FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 6 - FOREIGN DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR OFFICERS
Sec. 262b - Commitments for United States contributions to international organizations; limitations; consultation with Congressional committees

No representative of the United States Government in any international organization hereafter shall make any commitment requiring the appropriation of funds for a contribution by the United States in excess of 331/3 per centum of the budget of any international organization for which the appropriation for the United States contribution is contained in this Act: Provided, That in exceptional circumstances necessitating a contribution by the United States in excess of 331/3 per centum of the budget, a commitment requiring a United States appropriation of a larger proportion may be made after consultation by United States representatives in the organization or other appropriate officials of the Department of State with the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives: Provided, however, That this section shall not apply to the United States representatives to the Inter-American organizations, Caribbean Commission and the Joint Support program of the International Civil Aviation Organization.

(Oct. 22, 1951, ch. 533, title VI, §602, 65 Stat. 599; July 10, 1952, ch. 651, title I, 66 Stat. 550; Aug. 5, 1953, ch. 328, title I, 67 Stat. 368.)

This Act, referred to in text, is a composite of acts Oct. 22, 1951, and July 10, 1952, and means act Oct. 22, 1951, ch. 533, title VI, 65 Stat. 599, popularly known as the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce and Judiciary Appropriation Act of 1952, and act July 10, 1952, ch. 651, title I, 66 Stat. 550, popularly known as the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and Judiciary Appropriation Act of 1953. For complete classification of these Acts to the Code, see Tables.

Provisions of this section which prohibited representatives of the United States Government to any international organization of which the United States was not a member in 1952 from making any commitment requiring the appropriation of funds for a contribution by the United States in excess of 331/3 percent of the budget of such international organization, which provisions were from the Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and Judiciary Appropriation Act, 1953, were omitted since they were not repeated in subsequent appropriation acts.

This section is a composite of several Departments of State, Justice, Commerce, and Judiciary Appropriation acts. See References in Text note above.

1953—Act Aug. 5, 1953, inserted proviso that this section is not to apply to the United States representatives to the Caribbean Commission and the Joint Support program of the International Civil Aviation Organization.

This section is referred to in title 16 sections 773j, 3641, 5709.